Google (maybe) acquiring D2IQ, Zoom picks Oracle, Chef’s latest release and more Fortnite discussion. Plus, Matt Ray updates us on his quest to turn an old camera into a Webcam.
The Rundown
Google Negotiating to Buy Enterprise Cloud Software Company D2iQ (https://www.thestreet.com/investing/stocks/google-d2iq-acquisition-talks-cloud)
Ubuntu
Mark Shuttleworth on Ubuntu popularity and Canonical profitability (https://www.zdnet.com/article/mark-shuttleworth-on-ubuntu-popularity-and-canonical-profitability/)
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Focal Fossa Released | ServeTheHome (https://www.servethehome.com/ubuntu-20-04-lts-focal-fossa-released/)
Chef Updates Tool for Managing IT Infrastructure as Code (https://devops.com/chef-updates-tool-for-managing-it-infrastructure-as-code/)
Zoom
Zoom CFO explains how the company is grappling with increased demand (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/18/zoom-cfo-explains-how-the-company-is-grappling-with-increased-demand.html)
Zoom taps Oracle for cloud deal, passing over Amazon, Microsoft (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/28/zoom-taps-oracle-for-cloud-deal-passing-over-amazon-microsoft.html)
Why Zoom Chose Oracle Cloud Over AWS and Maybe You Should Too - Last Week in AWS (https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/why-zoom-chose-oracle-cloud-over-aws-and-maybe-you-should-too/)
Digitial Ocean: It's all about the bandwidth (https://blog.digitalocean.com/its-all-about-the-bandwidth-why-many-network-intensive-services-select-digitalocean-as-their-cloud/)
Zoom’s Biggest Rivals Are Coming for It (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/24/technology/zoom-rivals-virus-facebook-google.html)
Google Meet video conferencing is now free for anybody (https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/29/21240509/google-meet-video-conferencing-free-gmail)
Fortnite
Travis Scott Fortnite Twitter Thread (https://twitter.com/ballmatthew/status/1254478396517691392)
Fortnite Stats (https://twitter.com/FortniteGame/status/1253524351376330752)
Rapid7 is acquiring DivvyCloud for $145M to beef up cloud security (https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/28/rapid7-is-acquiring-divvycloud-for-145m-to-beef-up-cloud-security/)
Relevant to your interests
Deploy Cloud Foundry to Google Kubernetes in 10 minutes (https://starkandwayne.com/blog/deploy-cf-for-k8s-to-google-in-10-minutes/)
Red Hat Expands OpenShift to Ease Developer Use (https://thenewstack.io/red-hat-expands-openshift-to-ease-developer-use/)
Cote.pizza (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLk_5VqpWEtiW8N1RpUUWzG-nmITQWb02V)
Google is shutting down Shoelace, the social app you’ve probably never heard of (https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/29/google-is-shutting-down-shoelace-the-social-app-youve-probably-never-heard-of/)
Why we can’t build (https://www.vox.com/2020/4/22/21228469/marc-andreessen-build-government-coronavirus)
It’s Time To Learn (https://scottberkun.com/2020/its-time-to-learn/)
Amazon Scooped Up Data From Its Own Sellers to Launch Competing Products’ (https://daringfireball.net/linked/2020/04/23/amazon-sellers)
How the Department of Defense Moved to Kubernetes and Istio - Nicolas Chaillan (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjZ4AZ7hRM0)
AT&T CEO retiring as telco plans for three years of cost cuts and layoffs (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/04/att-ceo-retiring-as-telco-plans-for-three-years-of-cost-cuts-and-layoffs/)
Apple and Google update joint coronavirus tracing tech to improve user privacy and developer flexibility (https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/24/apple-and-google-update-joint-coronavirus-tracing-tech-to-improve-user-privacy-and-developer-flexibility/)
Nonsense
What if you could control Kubernetes with Excel? (https://twitter.com/danielepolencic/status/1254330583380979712)
Room Rater (@ratemyskyperoom) | Twitter (https://twitter.com/ratemyskyperoom)
All-day happy hour? Americans drinking while working at home in pandemic, surveys say (https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/coronavirus/article242132721.html)
Microservices Video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ) — why we can’t add the users birthday to the profile
Old french safe (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwz34logZ04)
Sponsors
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Conferences, Videos et. al.
Chef Tools & Terraform: Better Together (https://www.hashicorp.com/resources/chef-tools-and-terraform-better-together) from Matt Ray
Michael Coté - Intro - Spring Live (https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/spring-live-videos/michael-cot%C3%A9-intro-spring-live)
ChefConf 2020 (https://chefconf.chef.io/) June 2, 2020 All Digital. (https://www.chefconf.io/)
MongoDB’s virtual event http://MongoDB.Live on June 9-10, 2020
Dev (https://devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/)O (https://devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/)ps (https://devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/)D (https://devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/)ays Minneapolis, (https://devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/) August 4 - 5, 2020 use code SDT for 10% off registration.
THAT Conference (https://www.thatconference.com/wi) August 3 - 6 in Wisconsin Dells®.
SDT news & hype
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Auto Close Zoom Tab (https://github.com/andymckay/auto-close-zoom-tab)
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